The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-01
MIR. BLAINE'S EUROPEAN TRIP.
lie Will Sail Next Week. and Expects to Re-
main Abroad Year-Plans for the Visit.

NEW YORK, May 31-The World will print,
to omorrow, an elaborate account of visit made
by a correspondent to Mr.. Blaine, at his hc.ne in
Augusta, Me-, and afterwards at his cottage at
Ear Harbor, in the course of which Mr.. Blaine
gave fully his plans for his forthcoming trip,
discussed the false reports of his failing health,
and referred at length the work he has bestowed
upon the books just finished. He says his visit
abroad will extend over more than year. and
doubtless beyond the time of the meeting of the
next national convention. Mr.. Blaine sad
II am going abroad and expect to be away
about year Mrs. Blaine and my two daugh-
ters, Margaret and Hattie, will make up the
party I have engaged state-rooms the Ger
man Lloyds' ship Ems, which sails June g.
Wednesday week I intended to go little
earlier by the Cunard line. but their ships are
very much crowded. and conld not get the ac-
Communications / wanted. We shall stop at
Southampton and go at once to London. We
intend to spend considerable time in traveing
through Great Britain After travelling in Eng
land we will probably go to Scotland and Ireland.
Then, think, we shall spend a time in Ger
many. and after that take in France By this
time it will probably be getting late in the
year that Spain and Italy will be comfortable.
We intend to make a tour through both of those
countries and spend next winter along the Medi-
terranean. We will probably make long visits
in Rome and Greece. perhaps stop brief time
in Constantnople, and visit the scenes of the
recent earthquakes in the South of France and
adjoining portions of Italy. year is sufficient to
cover a great deal of ground without hurryIng"
The correspondent asked "How about the re-
port, Mr. Blaine, that you contemplate. IN some
way, assisting MIR. Gladstone and the homerule
party?"
THAT story is purely imaginative. I never
had such an idea in my mind. No. indeed;
shall do nothing of the kind"
ut has been widely published that your trip
to Europe is for the benefit Of your health. Is
that the easel"
''It is very curious about that report / have
been made sick by various newspapers at vari-
times. and first and last nave been made
to have nearly every malady that | know
of. l have had Brights disease.
torpid liver, affection of the heart,
paralysis nervous debility, and, well, l dont
diseases. As | said, it is curious how these
stories start. l have. in fact. been singularly
free from sickness. l have had hardly sick
day in my life-never any time serious; and
never had an organic trouble of any kindn
Mr.. Blaine positively declined to talk about
politics, except that while in conversation with
the correspondent in his cottage at Bar Harbor
he said. in regard to the Burchard incident in
1854 I did not hear what he said. But the
reporters heard it, and next day every paper in
the country had it, OF course. But as a matter
Way out in Indiana they bad it that had said
it. Oh. yes; it went all over the State that way.
In a good many places in the West they had
slips of paper printed. with Read What Mr.
Blaine Says on them, and distributed in front
of the churches Sunday. That is what
lost me the election. You know of course.
how close it was. Well, in New York city
alone it lost me several thousand votes-a good
deal more than enough to have carried the State.
I have never felt sure that was not elected.
It was matter of less than 600
votes to have turned New York the other way.
When it is as close that there can be
tainty of the count / do not think il
be said with certainty which one OF US really got
the most votes"
The report, which occupies about five columns
of the World, embraces many other points of
politics, concerning Mr.. Blaine and his views.